Author: Jan Sillemann

Printing ForNAV, RDLC and Word reports directly to a server printer

This article is relevant for Business Central OnPrem customers only   Before reading this article, please make sure you have familiarized yourself with the ForNAV Direct Print overview: https://www.fornav.com/direct-print/.   With ForNAV 6.2, you can now print ForNAV, RDLC and Word reports directly to a printer OnPrem, without having to print to a PDF first

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Print to Excel and Print to Excel dataset

With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 19, the ForNAV Customizable Report Pack also can print to Microsoft Excel. In OnPrem, after you click Send to on the request page, you see the following:   In Business Central Cloud (requires ForNAV 6.2 or later version), it works a bit differently because ForNAV piggybacks on the Word

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Working with drag-and-drop in the ForNAV Designer

Single select Dragging fields or other values from the Field List is the easiest way to create new controls in the ForNAV Designer. For example, dragging the Name field from a Customer data item to an empty space in a section creates a new textbox control:   If you press the Shift key just before

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Upgrading ForNAV OnPrem reports to a newer version

  Re-conversion of reports no longer needed   Until now, it has been necessary to re-convert ForNAV reports to enable them to run on a newer version of Business Central and NAV. This is due to ForNAV OnPrem reports using a DLL and, because Business Central does not support side-by-side versions of DLL (unlike other

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ForNAV email body layouts

This article is relevant for ForNAV 6.2 and later versions, and Business Central 14 and later versions. The ForNAV Customizable Report Pack now comes with a set of email body layouts.   If you do not select an email body layout when you select a report (or it is a new installation), the default email

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The object with ID 6189100 does not have a member with that ID

After ForNAV version 6.2.0.1 (or any later version) of the Customizable Report Pack for Business Central Cloud was released, you can get the following error when running a ForNAV report: “The object with ID 6189100 does not have a member with that ID”.   Root cause The root cause of this issue is that, by

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Installing the ForNAV Direct Print Client

To install the ForNAV Direct Print Client, you use the regular Reports ForNAV setup program. You can download this here: www.fornav.com/download When you install Reports ForNAV in Development mode, the Direct Print Client is automatically installed. To only install the Direct Print Client on a Windows workstation, run the setup and in the Select Components

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2022

Thank you for your support in 2021 We’d like to say a heartfelt thank you to all our customers, partners, vendors, friends, and other stakeholders for your continued and strong support in 2021, despite the tough times. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. And we look forward

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ForNAV does NOT use Log4j

There has been some publicity recently about the vulnerability reported in the Log4j logging library for Java. We would like to reassure you that ForNAV is a 100% .NET product and we do not use any Java. Therefore, you can be confident that our ForNAV products are not vulnerable to Log4j.

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Important news if you upgrade to BC19 CU1 OnPrem!

Please note if you upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central CU1 OnPrem, you need to install ForNAV 6.1.0.2168 or later version. If you have any questions, please send them to support@fornav.com

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